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June 23, 2022
Dobbs may be worse than the leaks suggest
After this bonkers ruling today, I could see Scumlito simply declaring "Abortion is murder" and being done with it.
May 16, 2022
https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1520802827823685632
But does it really matter which is which?
One is parody, one is real (Trigger warning)
https://twitter.com/TuckerCarlson/status/1520802827823685632
But does it really matter which is which?
May 4, 2022
https://twitter.com/DashDobrofsky/status/1521633300212682752?s=20&t=w8X-ZDLXwhRSqyaieks2KQ
https://twitter.com/DashDobrofsky/status/1521633301752020992?s=20&t=w8X-ZDLXwhRSqyaieks2KQ
https://twitter.com/DashDobrofsky/status/1521633302804717568?s=20&t=w8X-ZDLXwhRSqyaieks2KQ
https://twitter.com/DashDobrofsky/status/1521633303773650944?s=20&t=w8X-ZDLXwhRSqyaieks2KQ
https://twitter.com/DashDobrofsky/status/1521633305434595328?s=20&t=w8X-ZDLXwhRSqyaieks2KQ
https://twitter.com/DashDobrofsky/status/1521633307410186276?s=20&t=w8X-ZDLXwhRSqyaieks2KQ
Twitter thread worth reading re: Last night's debacle
https://twitter.com/DashDobrofsky/status/1521633298069397505https://twitter.com/DashDobrofsky/status/1521633300212682752?s=20&t=w8X-ZDLXwhRSqyaieks2KQ
https://twitter.com/DashDobrofsky/status/1521633301752020992?s=20&t=w8X-ZDLXwhRSqyaieks2KQ
https://twitter.com/DashDobrofsky/status/1521633302804717568?s=20&t=w8X-ZDLXwhRSqyaieks2KQ
https://twitter.com/DashDobrofsky/status/1521633303773650944?s=20&t=w8X-ZDLXwhRSqyaieks2KQ
https://twitter.com/DashDobrofsky/status/1521633305434595328?s=20&t=w8X-ZDLXwhRSqyaieks2KQ
https://twitter.com/DashDobrofsky/status/1521633307410186276?s=20&t=w8X-ZDLXwhRSqyaieks2KQ
May 3, 2022
So are all you " horserace moderates" done hedging your bets now?
"A lot of people who vote for Democrats are anti-abortion, so lets not piss them off by making this election about it.......please???"
April 11, 2022
Seems normal.....
Let's see what goes on TucKKKer Carlson's morning show.
https://twitter.com/NikkiMcR/status/1513561069070999553?s=20&t=9S3nxVCtPiKUUOaI6kqOEASeems normal.....
April 11, 2022
Ripped from Twitter: Naomi Wolf, having a normal one.
https://twitter.com/oneunderscore__/status/1513289383964667905?s=20&t=sRPrx8ee8ey5FLopXRKS5g
March 25, 2022
OK, OK. Criticizing a persons looks, even when theyre homophobic, is unkind. We apologize. Especially since Blackburns hair isnt even the most outrageous part of this story. Its what she said about one of President Bidens judicial nominees during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing thats truly offensive.
Blackburn said she opposed the nomination of Andre Mathis, who is Black, to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit because of his extensive rap sheet.
He has a rap sheet with a laundry list of citations, including multiple failures to appear in court, she said. In Tennessee, we expect our judges to respect the law. If Mr. Mathis thought he was above the law before, imagine how hell conduct himself if hes confirmed as a federal judge.
A rap sheet is a list of someones previous arrests and convictions. In Mathis case, he doesnt have any. But he did get three speeding tickets over a decade ago, one of which was for going 5 miles over the speed limit.
(QUEERTY) People are convinced Marsha Blackburn showed up to work drunk today
https://www.queerty.com/people-convinced-marsha-blackburn-showed-work-drunk-today-yep-story-checks-20220112OK, OK. Criticizing a persons looks, even when theyre homophobic, is unkind. We apologize. Especially since Blackburns hair isnt even the most outrageous part of this story. Its what she said about one of President Bidens judicial nominees during a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing thats truly offensive.
Blackburn said she opposed the nomination of Andre Mathis, who is Black, to the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 6th Circuit because of his extensive rap sheet.
He has a rap sheet with a laundry list of citations, including multiple failures to appear in court, she said. In Tennessee, we expect our judges to respect the law. If Mr. Mathis thought he was above the law before, imagine how hell conduct himself if hes confirmed as a federal judge.
A rap sheet is a list of someones previous arrests and convictions. In Mathis case, he doesnt have any. But he did get three speeding tickets over a decade ago, one of which was for going 5 miles over the speed limit.
March 14, 2022
DOLTON, Ill. (WLS) -- A young mother is dead after her toddler accidentally shot and killed her Saturday in Dolton, according to police.
A family's life was changed in an instant while sitting in a Food-4-Less parking lot.
Police said a 3-year-old boy got hold of a gun in the back seat of his parent's car and began playing with the weapon. It discharged, hitting his mother, 22-year-old Dejah Bennet, in the neck.
She died a short time later.
"This could have been prevented," said Dolton trustee and crisis responder Andrew Holmes.
Young mother killed after accidentally shot by toddler playing with gun; father in custody
https://abc7chicago.com/dolton-shooting-food-4-less-accidental-dejah-bennet/11649060/DOLTON, Ill. (WLS) -- A young mother is dead after her toddler accidentally shot and killed her Saturday in Dolton, according to police.
A family's life was changed in an instant while sitting in a Food-4-Less parking lot.
Police said a 3-year-old boy got hold of a gun in the back seat of his parent's car and began playing with the weapon. It discharged, hitting his mother, 22-year-old Dejah Bennet, in the neck.
She died a short time later.
"This could have been prevented," said Dolton trustee and crisis responder Andrew Holmes.
February 19, 2022
(Texas Monthly) Latinas Are Pushing a Political Revolution in South Texas--to the Right
https://www.texasmonthly.com/news-politics/republican-latinas-rio-grande-valley/?utm_source=pocket-newtabAdrienne Peña Garza remembers the insults at least as vividly as her triumphs. In 2018, Peña succeeded in her campaign to lead the Hidalgo County Republican Party, based in McAllen, becoming the first Hispanic woman to sit as chairwoman. As someone proud to call herself raza (a word Mexicans use to describe themselves as a race), a woman of color, and a Latina, the win meant something special to Peña: it wasnt just for her, but for South Texans who looked like her. That feeling of warm pride, however, soon clashed with the caustic burn of scorn. When she began leading meetings at the HCRP office, two women swung a sledgehammer outside, smashing open a coconut. The symbolism wasnt subtle. With the shell cracked, Peña could see the brown on the outside and the white on the inside..
In 2018, that disdain from fellow Mexican Americans was not unusual for Republicans in Hidalgo County, especially with then-president Donald Trump in the Oval Office. In response to the indignities, Peña formed deep connections with the other Latinas who came in the HCRP office doors. In particular, Peña remembers when she met Monica De La Cruz and Mayra Flores. De La Cruz, a local insurance agent, started attending meetings the same year that Peña was elected head of the local party, and eventually volunteered as a precinct chair. In 2019, Flores, a respiratory nurse whose husband is a Border Patrol officer, began coming in for events supporting immigration agents during the government worker furlough. Peña recalls how the two immediately brought fresh energy into the office, as if someone had turned on music in a room that had been quiet. I just thought, Wow. Youve got that something, Pena says. And we need your help.
Through 2019 and 2020, the women worked to increase Republican turnout in South Texas, with Flores running the HCRPs Spanish-language outreach. For the most part, they toiled outside of the spotlight. Even when De La Cruz announced a bid to try to unseat two-term Democratic congressman Vicente Gonzalez, national Republicansand even the statewide GOPpaid little attention to her campaign. South Texas was still a blue firewall, a place where it seemed Republicans had no chance of winning. Some counties there had not elected a Republican in more than one hundred years, and in 2016 Trump hadnt mustered even 30 percent of the vote in Hidalgo County, where Gonzalezs district was anchored. Most of the time, the local news painted conservatives such as Peña as outspoken but hopelessly outnumbered in deep blue South Texas, like horseflies biting cattle down in the Rio Grande.
Then everything changed. The political world of deep South Texas was rocked in November of 2020 when Trump smashed expectations in all the counties along the Rio Grande, transforming once-clear political boundaries in Texas into disputed territoryand leading Democrats around the country to question whether they were losing Hispanic voters. Republican politicians from Governor Greg Abbott to U.S. House minority leader Kevin McCarthy made pilgrimages to South Texas in the months after the election. Money and resources have followed: hundreds of thousands of dollars have poured into midterm races for House seats, and the Republican National Committee opened new Hispanic community centers in Laredo, McAllen, and San Antonio. On the local level, Republican organizations like Project Red Texas have paid the filing fees for a bevy of local candidates across South Texas
January 31, 2022
There are many better candidates.
https://prospect.org/justice/clyburn-pushes-management-side-labor-attorney-for-supreme-court/
Clyburn's preference for the Supreme Court is troubling.
https://twitter.com/alex_sammon/status/1488169423219351553There are many better candidates.
https://prospect.org/justice/clyburn-pushes-management-side-labor-attorney-for-supreme-court/
Childss experience is worth scrutinizing closely. As a lawyer, Childs served as an associate and then partner at Nexsen Pruet Jacobs & Pollard, from 1992 to 2000. At Nexsen Pruet, Childs worked primarily in labor and employment law, principally working on behalf of employers against allegations of racial discrimination, civil rights violations, and unionization drives.
Bloomberg Law has 25 cases registered in which Childs participated during her time at the firm; 23 of those involve alleged employment discrimination or other employment-related civil rights violations. Race and gender were common factors in such suits; seven such cases entailed race-based job discrimination, and another three involved sex-based job discrimination. In all but two registered instances, Childs was not representing the plaintiff but the defendant, meaning that she overwhelmingly represented employers accused of violating civil rights and gender discrimination laws in the workplace.
These cases catalogued commonplace abuses. In Greene v. Conseco Finance, for example, the plaintiff, an African American woman, alleged race and pregnancy discrimination in a situation where the company denied her a promotion and then terminated her outright. Childs represented the employer, Conseco. The case eventually resulted in a jury siding with the plaintiff, awarding her $193,000 in damages after Childs withdrew. In Harris v. L&L Wings, a plaintiff alleged near-daily sexual assault by a workplace supervisor for years; Childs represented the company. A jury eventually sided with Harris, the plaintiff, awarding compensatory and punitive damages and even attorneys fees.
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